Past Quotes

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

The past has to inform the present...

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Progressivism is the cancer in America, and it is eating our Constitution. It was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Research can trap you into the past.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Break through the bonds of your past.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.